Chapel At Rubery Hill Hospital

BIRMINGHAM BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH (OFF) SO 17 ME Chapel at Rubery Hill Hospital 15/10040 II Hospital chapel.1882,by Martin and Chamberlain of Birmingham for the Borough of Birmingham's Lunatic Asylums Committee of Visitors,with C20 alterations.Red brick with ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings beneath a plain tiled roof.Aisless plan comprising nave(now subdivided for Anglican and Catholic worship)and apsidal chapel,in the Early English style,with gabled bellcote at the junction of nave and chancel.Nave of 8 bays with plain entrance doorways enclosed by corridor of adjacent hospital.Each bay with copled lancets rising froma moulded brick string,the windows having steeply-sloping ashlar cills.Moulded brick surronds within chamfered brick openings.A moulded string above window heads supports a plain eaves.Nave bays delineated bystepped brick buttresses with moulded margins and ashlar set-offs.4 roof gablets to each slope.Doorway within each sidewall 4 bays from entry end.Bellcote projects from broken gable which supports flanking spired turrets.Apse with coupled lancets to each of 5 bays between stepped buttresses, with a continuous hood mould carried around upper set-offs to butresses.Interior with hammer-beam roof trusses,arch-braced and carried on ashlar wall corbels.Engaged colums support chancel arch. The nave is divided into unequal parts of 5 and three bays by a plain inserted partition.

Listing NGR: SO9926677797